MTP vs gvfs?

Steven Usdansky usdanskys at gmail.com
Tue May 19 14:28:02 UTC 2015


I've had this problem for a few months now. To get around it, I've
installed simple-mtpfs. To mount the phone:  simple-mtpfs <mountpoint>
To unmount: fusermount -u <mountpoint>

On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 10:31 AM, Aleksandar Kostadinov
<akostadi at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hello
>
> I installed the proper MTP gvfs backend and now I see phone in nautilus and
> thunar (I'm using XFCE). I can browse device, copy files, etc.
>
> Problem comes when I try to open a photo or another file in a viewer or
> firefox (e.g. to attach file). It just fails without an obvious reason. If I
> copy the file to `/tmp` then I can open but it is stupid that one cannot
> open directly from the phone.
>
> Any ideas what's wrong?
>
> btw it seems google stopped supporting openid 2 auth and now I'm locked out
> of ask.fedoraproject.org
> Any idea how to recover my account is welcome as I tried to no avail.
>
> Thank you,
> Aleksandar
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